Positive - Therapy Flashcards
(12 cards)
Main Components
- Developed by Michael Frisch - integrates principles from Beck’s cognitive-behavioral therapy and positive psychology
- Quality of life inventory
- CASIO model
- The Three Pillars of QoLT
Quality of Life Inventory
- assessment of the client’s life using the QoLI
* Identify problem aeas, plan intervention, measure the effects of intervention.
* QoLI assesses 16 areas of life that have the most influence on QoL.
* Inventory enables therapist/client to identify the areas of life that are personally important, want to focus on to increase life satisfaction
16 areas of life assessed by the inventory
- Health
- Self-esteem
- Goals and values
- Economical standards of living
- work satisfaction
- Play, recreation and leisure
- Learning
- Creativity
- Help and civic action
- Love
- Friendship
- Relationships with children
- Relationships with relatives
- Home
- Good relationships with neighbours
- Community
CASIO Model
- five-fold model of life satisfaction.
- Model proposes that satisfaction in any area of life is made up of:
C - Circumstances or characteristics of an area of life
A - the person’s attitude with respect to that area of life
S - the person’s evaluation of fulfilment in that area of life, based on their standards
I - the importance the person places on that life area
O = overall satisfaction with other areas in life that are not of immediate concern - During therapy clients are encouraged to follow this model to review areas of life that they feel dissatisfied with and to increase their level of life satisfaction by focusing on other areas of life that they may be overlooking.
The Three Pillars of QoLT
- involves helping the client foster feelings of strength or inner abundance (calm. rested) - has energy to live beyond the moment
- involves finding a meaning in life - helps identify and articulate a goal for each of the valued areas
- quality time - encouraged to spend time for rest, reflection, problem solving
- introduction at same time as the client begins intervention on 16 areas of life
Positive assumptions applied to QoLT
- work on the assumption that we have free will to change thoughts, feelings, behaviour
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Effectiveness for adolescents
**Toghyani et al (2011) **
* Investigated effectiveness on the subjective well-being of Iranian male adolescent
* 20 male students 15-17yo with low scores on subjective well-being questionnaire
* randomly assigned to experimental or control groups
* Exper - 8 sessions, showed significant improvement compared with control group
Effectiveness for depression
Grant et al (1995)
* participants who had shown interest in bibliotherapy
* 16 clinically depressed volunteers
* weekly meeting to discuss a manual on QoL
* all participants showed significant increase in QoL
Effectiveness for patients suffering with multiple sclerosis
Aghayousefi and Yasin Seifi
* impact of QoLT on 30 patients with multiple scierosis
* patients matched and randomly allocated, experimental and control groups
* Exp - 10 sessions, focused on CASIO Model
* significant decrease in depression and anxiety
Effectiveness - QoLT versus other positive psychology therapies
- NO evidence that it is more effective
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Ethical Issue - Positive approach
Strength
* don’t involve dragging up the past to offer explanations for present behaviour (psychodynamic)
* no blame laid on client as negative states of mind are not the focus (cognitive)
* recognition that positive traits are authentic, devloping them acknowledges free will
Ethical Issue - Moving too fast
- argue that positive psychology is moving too fast
- danger - therapists, ‘jumping to the gun’ in the strategies they use to help well-being
